Rugby vs. Football

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Ryan Martinez English 1301 Ms. Hill November 2, 2013 Essay #3 Rugby Vs. Football Football is one of the most American sports that is still played today other than basketball and baseball. Football is played throughout the world wide and is very popular among teenage kids in high school. There are many people the who love the sport of football and play of coach the sport and make there career based on sport of football. Rugby is a sport which is some what like the sport of football but is not as protected as football and was played before football had been played. There are many similarities and differences between the two sports. They both might have similarities in rules or in a scoring system. Differences is that they might use a different type of ball the same shape but possible a different size and the equipment is also different too. Football as well as rugby and soccer are believed to have descended from the ancient Greek game of harpaston. Harpaston is mentioned frequently in classical literature, where it is often referred to as a “very rough and brutal game“. The rules of this ancient sport were quite simple: Points were awarded when a player would cross a goal line by either kicking the ball, running with it across the goal line, or throwing it across the line to another player. The other team’s objective was simply to stop them by any means possible. There was no specific field length, no side line boundaries, no specified number of players per team, only a glaring lack of rules. The birth date of football in the United States is generally regarded by football historians as November 6, 1869, when teams from Rutgers and Princeton Universities met for the first intercollegiate football game. In those early games, there were 20 players to a team and football still more closely resembled rugby than modern football. Walter Camp, the coach at Yale

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